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Keysight Licensing Tools Overview
License Management Applications
Keysight provides license management applications to enable you, the customer to install, view, transport, and borrow the licenses you have purchased for use with Keysight products. These license management applications also enable you to configure license servers to share floating licenses among a number of users with the same product.
Keysight employs several versions of Flexera FlexNet Publisher licensing technology to enable licenses for products that can be installed and run on Windows and Linux PCs, as well as Windows based instruments. Each version of licensing has an associated license management application.
Please refer to your Keysight product documentation to determine which of the following license management application(s) are appropriate for your product(s). In many cases, the appropriate license management application is included in the installation of your Keysight product or is preinstalled on your Keysight instrument.
PathWave License Manager
This license management application allows you to manage all types of Keysight licenses for a variety of software products and instruments.
Node-locked licenses | Install and view |
Transportable licenses | Install, view, transport |
USB portable licenses | Install and view |
Floating licenses | Install, view, borrow, configure license server |

Keysight License Manager 6
This license management application allows you to manage floating and USB portable licenses for a variety of software products and instruments.
USB portable licenses: | Install, view, delete |
Floating licenses: | Install, view, delete, borrow, and configure license server |
You can use the Keysight License Manager 6 to configure remote license servers for sharing licenses across a network, or to configure a local license server (used with certain types of node-locked licenses) on the computer or instrument where your Keysight software is installed.
Keysight License Manager 5
This license management application allows you to manage node-locked and transportable licenses for a variety of software products and instruments.
Node-locked licenses: | Install, view, delete |
Transportable licenses: | Install, view, delete, and transport |
Keysight Floating License Manager for Design Software Products
This license management application allows you to manage floating and USB portable licenses specifically for Design Software products.
Node-locked licenses: | Install, view, delete |
USB portable licenses: | Install, view, delete |
Floating licenses: | Install, view, delete, and configure license server |
You can use the Keysight Floating License Manager for EDA to configure remote license servers for sharing licenses across a network, or to configure a local license server (used with Design Software node-locked licenses) on the computer or instrument where your Keysight software is installed.